Policy Press

Julie Ren

Julie Ren is a Research Assistant in the Geography Department at Humboldt University of Berlin and a Visiting Fellow in Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Showing 1-2 of 2 items.

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

Ren examines the making of art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research. Across vastly different contexts where universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly misplaced, the concept of aspiration provides an alternative lens to understand the nature of urban change.

Bristol Uni Press

The City in China

New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism

This book gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to actively engage with the challenge of conceptualising urban China and ask important questions about the development of contemporary global cities.

Bristol Uni Press